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President Nixon so far has not judged the shipping tie-up a national emergency; if he did so, he could send the men back to work during a 90-day cooling-off period. Members of Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (I.L.W.U.) have continued to unload passenger ships and move both war materiel bound for Viet Nam and relief supplies for East Pakistan. Even so, the strike has already caused delays and inconvenience for millions of U.S. businessmen and their customers-and taken a heavy financial toll of many of them. Shipowners lose as much...
...near the dock, an operation that increasingly is being handled by Teamster employees of freight-forwarding companies. San Francisco Teamster Boss Joseph Diviny has notified freight firms that his union has "no intention of giving up the work" and calls Bridges' claim that all dock labor belongs to longshoremen "a lot of baloney." The Teamsters recently agreed to settle the dispute by mediation, but so far the longshoremen have shown no inclination to follow suit. The issue is vitally important to them because of the shrinking base of stevedore jobs caused by containerization. A 30-ton prepacked container...
...league's first major action was to sponsor Italian-American Unity Day last year. The rally conspicuously closed stores in neighborhoods controlled by the Mafia; New York's waterfront was virtually shut down when many longshoremen took the day off for the ethnic celebration, and almost every politician in the city joined the 50,000 celebrants in Columbus Circle. Nelson Rockefeller was offered honorary league membership and accepted...
...that a silent majority, or even a silent large majority, can organize to express itself, to elect leaders and to bind themselves in negotiations. Evidently the more radical students want to avoid any large student movement that might, after a decade, become as conservative as Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union...
Donning a gas mask to protest police gassing tactics, she joined longshoremen picket lines with Zara du Pont, an activist member of the chemical clan. She also conducted campaigns in behalf of the League of Nations, and once ran for Congress on a pro-labor ticket against John McCormack...